Word: careless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sergeant John J. Grainger of the Cambridge Police Department, when asked about the incident, said: "From talking to these boys I've found that it's common knowledge among high-school students that the Harvard boys in the Yard are pretty careless about leaving rooms unlocked. The temptation puts these high school kids right in the middle," he added...
...then a careless Pantagraph printer may space out a short front-page column with a local item, but no printer commits the sin twice. Besides Frank Starzel, about the only Pantagraph editor to break the Page One rule was Adlai E. Stevenson, one of the five grandchildren and heirs of the late Pantagraph publisher William O. Davis. During a short hitch as assistant managing editor years ago, Stevenson (who is still a major stockholder in the Pantagraph) dared to put an area story-of a southern Illinois tornado -on the front page...
Medical men have been aware for half a century that X rays can be destructive to human tissue. Overdosage of X rays for benign purposes can have malignant consequences. Example: careless treatment may cure acne, but cause skin cancer. Despite this established knowledge, X rays are still being incautiously used as cure-alls...
...Gertrude Stein impressed me as a woman who was very careless about her appearance and dress; very alive to all kinds of interests and liable to question the viewpoints of her instructors. She was very fond of Mrs. Oppenheimer (through whom Mr. Friedman met the Steins), who was a very motherly woman and took both Gertrude and Leo under her wing, had them at her house quite a little, and fed them more lavishly than the way in which they were living in Cambridge at the time...
France quivered under the implications of the case, looked falteringly at the great interests, domestic and international, which might be affected by a misdirected or careless inheritance of the colossal Walter empire. And what of Dominique and the slippery Dr. Lacour? Both were vacationing at Marrakech in Morocco, 422 miles from the site of the great Zellidja mines. Everybody was talking at sixty to the minute. Jean Lacaze blamed Paulo, cried: "He is the shame of our family." Paulo Guillaume snapped irritably: "The billions don't interest me. What I want is to find my real mother." Preparing...